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DESINE de quoquam quicquam bene uelle mereri |
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LEAVE off wishing to deserve any thanks from any one, |
aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium. |
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or thinking that any one can ever become grateful. |
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omnia sunt ingrata, nihil fecisse benigne |
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All this wins no thanks; to have acted kindly is nothing, |
immo etiam taedet, taedet obestque magis; |
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rather it is wearisome, wearisome and harmful; |
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ut mihi, quem nemo grauius nec acerbius urget, |
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so is it now with me, who am vexed and troubled by no one so bitterly |
quam modo qui me unum atque unicum amicum habuit. |
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as by him who but now held me for his one and only friend. |